Eric Radford became the first openly gay Olympic champion in the history of the Winter Games, by virtue of his role among Canada’s gold medalists in team figure skating. He and partner Meagan Duhamel took the top spot in the pairs free skate program with their show-stopping routine set to Adele’s “Hometown Glory.

This isn’t the first Olympic medal for Radford. He took home a silver from the 2014 Sochi Games for his role on Canada’s second-place team figure skating squad. About 10 months later, Radford came out publicly as gay in an interview with Outsports’ Cyd Zeigler.

He’s one of 14 openly gay athletes competing in PyeongChang, but thanks to his superb skating in South Korea, he’s the only one from that group who can claim to be the first with winter gold.

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